When I was 12

i ran away and for one wild secret day any­thing was possible i huddled in the recessed entry to the Com­mon­wealth Bank in Garema Place and watched a pro­ces­sion of police who (i was pretty sure) were look­ing for me i guarded my pre­cious solitude...

Six scant years

The year my daugh­ter was born I thought maybe we were start­ing to get it right after all A woman was prime min­is­ter of Australia And Julia was elo­quent and sharp And fought for justice, climate, all the ways (we thought) You’d expect...

Nice

I don’t know how (some) women do it — I see you out there (tumblr, Face­book, twit­ter, lj) — you are as vir­u­lent, vicious, outraged (hurt) as I feel by this end­less parade, this daily offence, this unrelenting (drip...

Intersections

On the banks of the river Tajo I sat with Alvarez talk­ing about Deleuze Curi­ous, soft — moments of discovery. In Queens­land heat — a bar at 11pm after cat empire reigned with those horns and that Wurl­itzer sound circ­ling around...